Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2

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Page 43I, like Elinor, desire to do "justice to Mrs. Lewis's kindness, though its effusions
were often distressing, and sometimes almost ridiculous." Mrs. Lewis, true to the
type of all the Mrs. Jennings's who have lived since, and indeed before, 18 13,
was ...

Page 50Down on the seashore it is a mixture of Holland and England in a number of
houses solidly built, with porticoes and verandahs, in which lived white
government servants, some wealthy Tamils, and an old retired Government
Agent, Sir William ...

Page 51It was in this bungalow on the bastion that I lived with Southorn. It was a rather
gloomy house, overshadowed by an immense banyan tree which had covered
the whole area between the verandah and the edge of the bastion with the tangle
of ...

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In the feudal society of Ceylon "I felt that there was some depth of happiness rather than pleasure, of satisfaction, . . . which the western world is losing or has lost." (p 158) Judgments such as ...Read full review

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This is the second book Leonard Woolf wrote of his life. He is a graceful author, and a sensitive man. Good look into an aristocratic young britisher and his growing up.Read full review